I Won A Contest!

Mabuhay!
:-) I found out that I won the Halloween Nail Art Contest on November 1. It's a good news for the first day of Novenber that's why I'm feeling lucky everyday.

I was really excited that time. It was a mixed emotions. I wanna know the winners but I don't wanna know, then I want to know again... Waaaaaaah! I was literally jumping on the couch when I saw this post. At least I won a Nail Art Contest hee hee. Now, I have something to be proud of.

My Prizes:

Swatches:

I'm sorry I don't have a swatch for the triple holo top coat and the OPI Rapid dry.

But I still hope that you like my post.

I'm really happy that I won this contest. I hope I'll won again next time. :-)

Please let me know what you think by leaving a comment..


Thank you!

History of Halloween Nail Illustration

This post is my entry for the Halloween Nail Art Contest on NailNation by Maria Cheo Shen.

The History
From communion with the dead, the pumpkins and pranks. Halloween is a patchwork holiday stitch together with cultural religious and occult traditions that span centuries.


 It all began with the Celts, a people whose culture had spread across Europe more than two thousand years ago.
October thirty-first was the date they celebrated the end of the harvest season in a festival called Samhain. That night also mark the Celtic new year and was considered the time between years, a magical time when the ghost of the dead walked the earth. 


"It was the time when the veil between death and life was supposed to be at its finish.

On Samhain the villagers gathered in a huge bone fire to drive the dead back to the spirit world and keep them away from the living." 


But as the catholic church influence grew in Europe, it frown on the pagan rituals like Samhain.

In the seventh century, the Vatican began merged in with the church sanctioned holiday. So, November 1st was designated All Saints' day to honor martyrs and the deceased faithful.
"Both of these holidays had to deal with the afterlife and about survival after death. It was a calculated move on the part of the church to bring more people into their own."


All saints' day was known then as Hallowmas
Hallow means holy or saintly.
So the translation was roughly, mass of the saints.


The night before, October thirty-first was All Hallows Eve.
Which gradually morphed into Halloween.

The holiday came to America with the wave of Irish emigrants, during the Potato Famine of the 1840's. They brought several of their holiday customs with them, including bobbing for apples and playing tricks on neighbors, like removing gates from the front of houses.
The young pranksters wore mask so they wouldn't be recognized.


Over the years, the traditions of harmless tricks grew into outright vandalism.

Back on the 1930's it became a dangerous holiday and there was such hooliganism and vandalism. Trick or treat was originally an extortion deal. "Give us candies or I will trash your house."

Store keepers and neighbors began giving treats or bribes to stop the tricks. The children ran from door to door for treat as an alternative to trouble making.

By the late thirty, TRICK OR TREAT became a holiday greeting.


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A very special thanks to NatGeo and David Skal (Author of Halloween History).


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Revlon Red

There are lots of women who loves RED. My mom is obsessed with this color too. She won't go out of the house without her luscious red lips. At first, I thought that RED was a very shocking color. It was too much for me.


When I got older, I started to like the color red. Based on what I read and watched, men are attracted to a woman that wears this color.


These are the Revlon products that my hubby bought for me:


Revlon Red Nail Polish (680)

This nail polish costs Php 225.00 or $ 5.14, yeah very pricey for a nail polish but never mind. As long as I'm happy!

It really has a nice deep red that suits any skin tone. Oh, I just love my nails! It's so fabulous!

Revlon Red Lipstick

I had a hard time looking for this product. As you can see, it costs Php 450.00 ($ 10.27). There are lot of shade and I couldn't find the right one for me. There are different shades of red that are suitable in different skin tones.

According to Michelle Phan warm red matches better on warm undertone and cool red matches better on cool undertone. How will you know if you have cool or warm undertone? Simple, you just have to do the wrist method. You have to be outdoors to test this. If the veins on your wrist are blue, you have a cooler undertone and if it's olive, you have a warmer undertone.

I have a warmer undertone so I used the red that has more orange undertone on it. This color will complement my skin and will give me a radiant glow, just like what Michelle told.

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This post is dedicated to my beautiful mommy.
I miss you! See you on Christmas!

Jazzing Up My First Matte Polish

Hello godesses!

I just bought my very first matte polish and it's from Etude House. The color that I chose is Petite Darling Nails Matte #10.

I think this is quite expensive because it costs Php 98.00 ($2.24) for a very tiny bottle.
Anyway, I think it will be worth it.

This is how it looks like on my fingernails.

Isn't it really pretty? I love the color.. It's sooo sweet. i applied 2 coats because I really want it to be opaque. My hubby thinks that my nail looks funny because of the color. I don't care 'coz I'm loving it!

I like art. So I decided to jazz up my first matte polish.
Wanna see the outcome?
^.^

Did I mention that these are fake nails? Wanna see how it looks like when I took them off?
:-P

Hehehehe..

Idol Nail Art

Hello godesses!

K-pop, J-pop, P-pop and other singing groups are very popular in our generation. They are called "idols". Their popular style started here in Asia. They have these outrageous outfits, glamorous hairstyle and of course cute nails!

What I like about idols are, they have different personalities yet they complement each others. Just like colors! That's the reason why nail artists like me designs a nail art inspired by these idols.

Anyway, let's look at the design one by one..

Thumb

I used San San's Sea Green, Etude House's Petite Nails Hot Pink and a Gold striper. I painted it vertically. I was surprise to see that the colors look good together. A drew a white heart and applied a silver glitter polish all over the heart. To finished it up, I put pink nail sequins to outline the heart's shape.

Index

This is my fave design. I made this accidentally haha. Anyway, I just applied it zigzag. i don't now hot to put it in words. Sorry. I just love it!

Middle

I applied gold nail polish all over the nail. This is very simple too but it looks fab because of the colors. I just put dots randomly..

Ring

I applied a Pearl White as a background. I drew half a star using a pink nail polish and then I outlines it with gold striper. I used Sea Green nail polish for the designs on the sides and outlined it too with gold striper.

Pinky

Pearl White for the background. I tried to make a cheetah pattern but it kinda failed. It sucks! I just put a fimo and 3 rhinestones to jazz it up a little bit.

Ta-da!

Sorry guys that it took me like days just to update my blog. Huhu!
I was busy and it became impossible for me to upload pix because someone broke my USB connector. GRRRRRRR!

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Amethyst + Silver + Yellow = Water Marble

Hello goddesses!

It's another try out for water marbling!

I know I said that I won't try water marbling again but, I really think that if I practice a lot, I will get better.

The following pics are the finished look:

Left Hand

Right Hand

More pics..

Anyway, these are the items that I used. All of them are local products. They are very cheap because they only cost less than a dollar. The good thing is that they don't suck hehehehe.

Amethyst

Pina Colada

Electrified

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